Car-seat.



FQBENNETT.

CAR SEAT. 7

APPLICATION FILED AUG.3I, 1912. RENEWED JULY 20. I916.

1,214,123. Patented Jan. 30, 1917.

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CAR SEAT.

APPLICAT-ION FILED AUG-31 19x2. RENEWED JULY 20. I916.

Patented J an. 30, 1917.

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FREDERICK BENNETT, OF RAVENSW'OOD, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO WALKER AND BENNETT I/IANUFACTURING COMPANY,

NEW YORK.

OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF CAR-SEAT.

Patented J an. 30, 1917.

Application filed August 31, 1912, Serial No. 718,055. Renewed July 20, 1916. Serial No. 110,412.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRnonRroK BENNETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ravenswood, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Seats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in car seats, and more particularly to reversible car seats, or those in which the back is reversed from one side of the seat to the other.

The primary object of the invention is to improve upon the construction shown in my co-pending application Serial Number 610,867, filed February 25, 1911, wherein the results accomplished are substantially those accomplished by the present construction, but the present construction is simplified and improved in detail, making the seat easily operated and efiicient in operation.

A further object of the invention is to provide a novel means for setting the seatparts at the extreme of its movements, in both directions, so that a force will be required to start the seat-parts, that is slightly in excess of the force required to actuate the parts intermediate the two extreme positions of the back. This is for the purpose of preventing the conditions that arise in the use of car-seats, by reason of the passengers in a seat behind a particular seat, pushing on the back and starting the seat, greatly to the annoyance of the front passenger.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a sectional elevation, looking at the parts as they would appear from the aisle end of the seat; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the seat; Fig. 3 is a broken side elevation showing the crude means for attaching the tie rods to the pedestal arms.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates the outer arm portion of the seat in the present instance, shown in dotted lines.

The cushion, indicated by the numeral 2, is shown in dotted lines, the numeral 3 designates the back of the seat, and the numeral 4 designates the aisle pedestal formed with a lower base portion for attachment to the floor, and an upper arm portion upon which the tie rods are mounted and supported.

The numeral 5 designates a plate attached to the side of the car. Spanning the space between the pedestal arms and the plate 5. are two tie-rods 6, upon which is mounted the rockers 7 having elongated slots 8 therein, for the passage of the tie rods. These slots are inclined in opposite directions to bring about, in the movement of the seat, a proper inclination of the cushion. The up per surface of the rocker is flat for the reception of the cushion, and is provided centrally with the lug 9, adapted to extend into a suitable opening in the cushion, whereby the cushion is carried or shifted with the rockers. The rockers, of which there are two, one at each end of the seat, are each provided with a depending arm 10 having therein a slot 11 in which operates a stud 12 on one arm 13 of shaft 14, whose ends are fixed in the wall end-plate and aisle end-plate respectively. The other arm 13 of the two-arm lever is provided with a stud 15 which operates in an elongated slot 16 in an extension 17 of the seat-back arm 3, as best shown in Fig. 2. At the lower end of the extensions of the seat-back, of which there are .two, are pintles 18, by which the seat-back has a pivotal connection with links 19, which links are provided at their forward ends with pintles 20, which work in vertical slots 21 in fixed end plates 22. The links 19 are pivotally connected with the arms 13, a little below the center of said links, as indicated at 22.

The numeral 23 designates the foot rest, pivotally mounted upon the shaft 14 and extending downwardly so as to be conveniently exposed at either side of the seat, when in either one of its final adjustments. The rest is provided with extensions 24 above their pivots, and carry pintles 25, which work in three-way slots 26, one provided in each rocker. It will be noticed that the laterally extending slots are curved slightly upwardly at their ends as indicated at 27 and there is provided a high point 28, intermediate of said slots, and obstruction points 29 are, by the formation of the slots, provided at the lower ends of the vertical portions of the slot. By this arrangement, there will be brought about, a slight binding tendency, when an efiort is made to shift the seat, which is overcome by the slight excessive force required to start the seat,'-forcing the pintles 25 out of one or the other of the lateral portions of the slots into the vertical portions at which time, the parts will be movin easily from one extreme position to the ot. er.

In operation, assuming'the parts to be in the position shown in Fig. 1, and it is desired to shift the seat, force is applied to the top of the seat-back. This will force the pintles 20 upward in the slots 21 of the fixed plates 22. It will also, through the link connections 19, force the rocker arms over, rocking them on their pivot, which is the shaft 1%. This rocking movement will, through the pintle connections between the arms 13 and the depending arms 10 of the rocker, force the rockers in the direction opposite 't'othat in which the seat back is moving. In this movement, the pintles 15 and 12, of the arms 13 and 13 of the rockable levers will move in their respective slots, 16 and 11, in the seat-back extension 17 and the depending arm 10, respectively. The movement of the rockable-arms will, by reason of their slot and pint'le connections with the extensions 24, of the footrest, cause the foot-rest to be rocked upon its pivot, which is the shaft 14, to the position opposite to that which it now occupies.

Referring to Fig. 3 the numeral 30 desig nates a clip having an upper circular portion 31 which embraces the tie rod 6. This clip is normally shaped as indicated in dotted-lines in said figure, that is to saynormally the downwardly extending cars 32 of the clip are spaced apart adistance considerably wider than the top of the pedestal; so that" when th said portions of the clip are drawn together by means of the bolts 33 they will come flush against the sides of the pedestal, and in so doing they will project to points 34: beneath the tie rod, thus giving the tie rods greater bearing surface upon the clip, whereby obviously the tie rods will be held more firmly in place.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A car-seat, having in combination fixed end-plates provided with upwardly-extending, slotted arms; tie-rods connecting said plates together; seat-rockers mounted on the tie-rods, and provided with depending slotted extensions; a back provided with depending slo'tted arms; pivoted two-arm 06 m trans arent may'b e (stanza for five cents each ty Washington, 1). CI?

levers having their lower arms pivoted in slotted extensions of the seat-rockers and their upper arms loosely 'conne'c-tedto the slotted arms of the back, and links ful crumed on the said two arm levers, said links having one end connected to the back arms and the other end connected to the slotted arms of the end-plates, whereby the shifting of the back will shift the seatrockers. I

2. A car-seat, having in combination fixed end-plates provided with upwardly-extending, slotted arms; seat-rockers having oppositely-inclined slots, and provided with depending slotted extensions; tie-rods passing through the inclined slots of the seatrockers and connecting the tie-plates together; a back provided with depending,

slotted arms; a shaft having its ends fixed in the end-plates; a two-armed lever pivo'ted on said shaft at each end thereof, one arm of each leverbeing pivoted in each slotted-arm of the back and the other arm of each lever pivoted in each slotted exten sion of the seat-rockers, and links fulcrumed on the two-arm levers, each link having one arm connected to "the back-arms and the other end connected to the slotted arms of the end-plates.

3. A car-seat,having in combination fixed In testimony whereof I aflix my signa- 'ture in presence of two witnesses it-messes Ennnsrrnn Porrnn, JAMns 1 Ennis. V

addressing the Commissioner otiten'ts,

FREDERICK BENNETT. 

